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This shows the immense territory
U. S. navy vessels are guarding, from
Halifax to the Panama canal, follow
ing an agreement with the allies to
protect shipping on this side.
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WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE
URGES TAX ON INCOMES
New York, April 16. In half-page
advertisements inserted In all New
York newspapers, the American
committee on war finance has
called upon congress to enact legis
lation that would tax incomes on a
sliding scale, as the means of secur
ing war finances.
Unmarried persons having an in
come over $2,000 would Day 2 ner
cc"t;"a'ic'l persons, receiving over
83;0n0, 2 per cent, and no income
could exceed $100,000 a year under
the plan.
Government control of prices for
necessities and making failure to
correctly state incomes a felony are
also asked.
ANARCHIST AND FRIEND ARE
PINCHED ASK JURY TRIAL
Hippolitte Havel and Theo. Appel,
editor and manager of Social War,
Chicago anarchist monthly, demand
ed jury trials when, their cases were
called in Shakespeare av. police sta
tion Saturday.
- Their attorney, A. S. Tohinson, be
lieves this may be a case of over-zeal
on thp part of the police in their hunt
for spies and plotting aliens.
While in a Northwest Side saloon
Havelis said to have remarked: "I
am an anarchist and what of it? Do
I do any harm to America by being
an anarchist." Whereupon a man
stepepd ug from a table. "Are you
an anarchist?" he inquired. ''Yes,"
it is said Havel answered. "What of
it?" "Then you are both under ar
rest," said the strangpr, displaying a
detective's star. .
Nathan Korsak was arrested as a
plotter for distributing circulars of
an-1. W. W. dance on the back of
which was printed in Russian the
"International" hymn of revolt and
freedom which has stirred all nations
since the time when it was sung dur
ing the French revolution. "Revolt!
Revolt!" is the "International's urge
toward justice.
Judge Jos. Z. Uhlir grew red in the
face when it was translated to him
in Shakespeare av. court He pound
ed his fists on the bench and asked,
why such an incendiay thing was
ever -even printed. Att'y Tbbinson
tried to tell him that millions of cop
ies of it had been distributed "in
America within the last 25 years, but
Uhlir sent Korshak to federal au
thorities for an investigation. He was
then freed.
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